#fuel loading

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fuel loading

This year California had its driest February on record (though matters improved a bit later), leading to a build-up of flammable dead wood. But ill-judged policies have made the forests more vulnerable too. The decades-long approach of suppressing wildfires stops modest blazes from removing flammable undergrowth. The resulting “fuel loading” has turned California’s forests into tinderboxes.

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Russia Starts Fuel Loading at Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant-2

The first batch of 163 fuel assemblies was successfully installed and the remaining assemblies will be loaded shortly. The initial fuel loading marked the beginning of the reactor start-up.